A Reborn Opel GT Could Become A New Holden Sports Car

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After Peter Keley, GM Executive Director of Sales, made the promise of a rear-wheel drive, V8-powered sports car in passing at the 2015 North American International Auto Show, media across the globe as tried to piece together what Holden has up its sleeves to replace a RWD, V8-powered Holden Commodore.

But, Motoring thinks there’s something global at play. Linking puzzle pieces together, it’s very possible a future Opel GT could make its way to Holden as a future sports car. This would also help explain why General Motors moved to trademark the “Monza” name in Australia.

The only piece that doesn’t fit? This vehicle will not be rear-wheel drive, and it will not have a V8 under the hood. Well-placed sources say the upcoming GT will ride on the D2XX platform, and share quite a but with the current 2016 Opel Astra and all-wheel drive will help plant power from a turbocharged four-cylinder engine.

If this new car uses GM’s D2XX vehicle platform which is currently used by cars like the Chevy GEN 2 Cruze, GEN 2 Volt and upcoming CUVs like the Buick Envision and GEN 3 Equinox, it means that this new vehicle could be a V6 AWD.

General Motors only has two RWD platforms, the Alpha that is currently used by Cadillac’s ATS and Chevy’s Camaro as this platform could be used as demonstrated by the ATS and Camaro will fit a twin-turbo 3.6L V6 to possibly LT4 supercharged 6.2L V8.

The other RWD platform is the Omega that is used by Cadillac’s CT6; this platform will work with every type of engine from turbo 4-cyl, V6, twin-turbo V6 and V8. Opel and Holden could shorten the dimensions of the Omega to build a vehicle smalr than the CT6; but the only problem with the Omega platform is price as whatever uses this platform will have a $65,000+ pricetag.